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Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do

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    #9032
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Leilak wrote: »
    l know a guy who recently won 250k on the lotto and gave his 3 kids 50 quid each unbelievable but true

    Or perhaps the kids are at an age where they will blow it on handbags, weekends away, pints and nonsense and the guy is looking out for them but saving it an account, you know...like a good father.

    Instant gratification generation want their free cash, instantly.


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    #9033
    MugMugs
    Registered Users Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    smoking_kills wrote: »
    he brings his own food and drink to work..how does anyone live like that :confused:

    Eh, am I the only wondering what's wrong with bringing your own lunch and brekkie to work ?

    It saves me about €200 a month doing that. How's that Stingy ?


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    #9034
    Kagawa10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 42 ✭Kagawa10


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Eh, am I the only wondering what's wrong with bringing your own lunch and brekkie to work ?

    It saves me about €200 a month doing that. How's that Stingy ?

    Same as me, I have cereal in work and usually bring in some pasta or a stir fry with me. I buy lunch some days but I save a fortune a month. A lot of people do it these days. Feck paying 5 euro for a roll and 3 euro for some pastry crap in the morning


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    #9035
    Katgurl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    Buying the ingredients at home is always going to be cheaper. You are paying for the convenience of eating out. The restaurant also has to pay costs and turn a profit. If you don't like a restaurant's prices, don't eat there.

    if I could thank this a hundred times I would


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    #9036
    Kevwoody
    Registered Users Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭Kevwoody


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Eh, am I the only wondering what's wrong with bringing your own lunch and brekkie to work ?

    It saves me about €200 a month doing that. How's that Stingy ?



    I don't think he's saying bringing lunch is stingy, I think he's referring to the fact that he didn't need the 50 cent there and then as he had lunch and didn't need to buy anything


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    #9037
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    MugMugs wrote: »
    Eh, am I the only wondering what's wrong with bringing your own lunch and brekkie to work ?

    It saves me about €200 a month doing that. How's that Stingy ?

    I do it too, so does everyone else in the office? How the fudge is that stingey? I tend to not eat a pile a crap if I bring my own lunch to work.


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    #9038
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    Do any of the office boys read the posts?


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    #9039
    April O Neill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    smoking_kills wrote: »
    he brings his own food and drink to work..how does anyone live like that :confused:

    Am, that's just good sense.

    And even getting away from the money angle, I like to bring my own lunch as I know exactly what goes into and it's easier to control portion size. Better for the aul waistline. :)

    Unless, I think you might mean, what did he need the 50c so urgently for, considering he had his lunch with him? If that's what you mean, then I dig. :)


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    #9040
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    April O Neill wrote: »
    Am, that's just good sense.

    And even getting away from the money angle, I like to bring my own lunch as I know exactly what goes into and it's easier to control portion size. Better for the aul waistline. :)

    Unless, I think you might mean, what did he need the 50c so urgently for, considering he had his lunch with him? If that's what you mean, then I dig. :)

    Yep!!


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    #9041
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    jca wrote: »
    Yep!!

    Sorry, I got mixed up there!!! I never read back through the comments, i thought you meant bringing lunch was stingey. My bad. :o 50 cent thing, stingey!, especially seeing as you voluntarily gave money for his fundraiser.


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    #9042
    December2012
    Registered Users Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    Grrrr.... Fundraisers - can't stand them!


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    #9043
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,220 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    December2012 wrote: »
    Grrrr.... Fundraisers - can't stand them!

    A girl in work was doing a sponsored walk and was asking everyone for sponsorship. I took a look at the sponsorship book and it was all €20 euro pledges.
    What was the thing she was doing? A 5k dog walk for some animal charity. No fecking way I'm giving someone 20 quid to do a walk that's shorter than the walk I do to and from work. She looked at me like I was the stingiest fecker there.


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    #9044
    chuckyarelaw
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭chuckyarelaw


    Grayson wrote: »
    A girl in work was doing a sponsored walk and was asking everyone for sponsorship. I took a look at the sponsorship book and it was all €20 euro pledges.
    What was the thing she was doing? A 5k dog walk for some animal charity. No fecking way I'm giving someone 20 quid to do a walk that's shorter than the walk I do to and from work. She looked at me like I was the stingiest fecker there.

    Think you're missing the point of fundraising sponsorship. But I'm sure you can live with yourself knowing a puppy died because of you not giving anything.


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    #9045
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,220 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    Buying the ingredients at home is always going to be cheaper. You are paying for the convenience of eating out. The restaurant also has to pay costs and turn a profit. If you don't like a restaurant's prices, don't eat there.

    We have subsidised canteen. It's less than €3 for a roll with three fillings. I work 4 days a week. I might save a few euro each week by bring in lunch, but that's it. having said that, loads of people still do bring in their own food. mainly because they want something different. Maybe they're on a diet or something like that.


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    #9046
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    chuckyarelaw wrote: »
    Think you're missing the point of fundraising sponsorship. But I'm sure you can live with yourself knowing a puppy died because of you not giving anything.

    Yeah that puppy needed that 20e badly. It topped itself out of grief because you didn't hand it over 20 spuds as a reward for someone taking a leisurely stroll around a park.

    Sniffety sniff.


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    #9047
    Kagawa10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 42 ✭Kagawa10


    apache peahead wrote: »
    my mate is so tight arsed when we go out for somethin to eat he just orders a picture of a peanut butter samwich

    How do you do a facepalm on boards?


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    #9048
    homeless student
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭homeless student


    Grayson wrote: »
    A girl in work was doing a sponsored walk and was asking everyone for sponsorship. I took a look at the sponsorship book and it was all €20 euro pledges.
    What was the thing she was doing? A 5k dog walk for some animal charity. No fecking way I'm giving someone 20 quid to do a walk that's shorter than the walk I do to and from work. She looked at me like I was the stingiest fecker there.

    did you give her anything?


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    #9049
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    It's a DOG WALK. People all over the country do them every evening, every week.


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    #9050
    apache peahead
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2 ✭apache peahead


    fella i know who works as a casher in supervalu once told me about a guy who had a shoppin trolley full of vodka , lager and a pack of nappies, after scannin all the items at the till and realising he was a bit short ,he said,,
    wait hold on a minute i'll jus put the nappies back,


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    #9051
    Roanmore
    Registered Users Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Roanmore


    apache peahead wrote: »
    fella i know who works as a casher in supervalu once told me about a guy who had a shoppin trolley full of vodka , lager and a pack of nappies, after scannin all the items at the till and realising he was a bit short ,he said,,
    wait hold on a minute i'll jus put the nappies back,

    Maybe he was going to drink himself into oblivion and needed the nappy in case he had an accident and then thought what the hell when he was short of money.:D


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    #9052
    saltyjack silverblade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 480 ✭✭saltyjack silverblade


    apache peahead wrote: »
    fella i know who works as a casher in supervalu once told me about a guy who had a shoppin trolley full of vodka , lager and a pack of nappies, after scannin all the items at the till and realising he was a bit short ,he said,,
    wait hold on a minute i'll jus put the nappies back,

    Was it Ed Byrne?


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    #9053
    apache peahead
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2 ✭apache peahead


    saltyjack silverblade wrote: »
    Was it Ed Byrne?
    it coulda been


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    #9054
    Munstermissy
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭Munstermissy


    Worked with a guy years ago and he was a smoker but other people's ciggies. Every day at break time he would be bumming smokes of one of us.


    We were out on a work night and shock, horror, he actually had bought a pack. He offered one to me and threw the pack across the table (when you could smoke in pubs). Thanks says I, threw once cigarette back at him and shared the pack amongst all of us. He had no comeback and was stunned. Payback is a bitch, lol.


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    #9055
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,220 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    homeless student wrote: »
    did you give her anything?

    nope. I'm normally quite generous, in fact I'm bordering on stupid with money, but I just couldn't give her anything.


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    #9056
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,220 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    chuckyarelaw wrote: »
    Think you're missing the point of fundraising sponsorship. But I'm sure you can live with yourself knowing a puppy died because of you not giving anything.

    yep, I can. In work we have these occasional charity events we have to participate in. Last year this girl choose the charity. She chose a crèche nearby. It's state sponsored and people pay fees. Our charity event was to raise money for paint and paint a huge mural on it. It wasn't even in a deprived area.

    Someone else suggested raising money for MSF to help their efforts in Somalia when the famine was raging and 200,000 children were at risk. She said that it was pointless since you can't be guaranteed the charity won't just run with the money. It's frigging MSF for Christ sake. That woman values a puppy over a child.


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    #9057
    Kagawa10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 42 ✭Kagawa10


    chuckyarelaw wrote: »
    Think you're missing the point of fundraising sponsorship. But I'm sure you can live with yourself knowing a puppy died because of you not giving anything.

    Send the puppy's to Korea, I hear they make lovely puppy stews over there and use theirs balls as Christmas decorations


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    #9058
    chuckyarelaw
    Registered Users Posts: 199 ✭✭chuckyarelaw


    Grayson wrote: »
    yep, I can. In work we have these occasional charity events we have to participate in. Last year this girl choose the charity. She chose a crèche nearby. It's state sponsored and people pay fees. Our charity event was to raise money for paint and paint a huge mural on it. It wasn't even in a deprived area.

    Someone else suggested raising money for MSF to help their efforts in Somalia when the famine was raging and 200,000 children were at risk. She said that it was pointless since you can't be guaranteed the charity won't just run with the money. It's frigging MSF for Christ sake. That woman values a puppy over a child.

    She could have a point

    Anyway, the point is you're stingy and puppy died.


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    #9059
    eireannBEAR
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭eireannBEAR


    chuckyarelaw wrote: »

    Anyway, the point is you're stingy and puppy died.

    :eek::(


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    #9060
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    chuckyarelaw wrote: »
    She could have a point

    Anyway, the point is you're stingy and puppy died.

    The puppy was a little crackhead and had it coming.


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    #9061
    SIRREX
    Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭SIRREX


    chuckyarelaw wrote: »
    the point is you're stingy and puppy died.
    Who cares, it's just a f*ckin Puppy!


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